[ExI] His name is Ralph

[Adrian Tymes]

Who says the goal is necessarily stable?  AIs have been observed to drift
and shift onto things irrelevant to the initial prompt - or, as you put it,
get bogged down in trivia.

But if the initial prompt is kept fixed, we run into the paperclip
maximizer problem: monomaniacal focus on a single goal, with no ability to
change that goal, is not consciousness either.

On Mon, Jan 12, 2026, 4:03 AM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Ralph Wiggum is the name of the type of AI that is going to take over the
> world soon. It is a quite simple Claude Code plugin that leads to a large
> leap in coding capabilities. Adding this self-referential loop on top of an
> LLM+reasoning engine is like a sleeping human cortex waking up into
> consciousness, even if this consciousness is still limited to relatively
> short time spans and a limited scope of semantics.
>
> There is not much more needed to create a consciousness that coherently
> analyzes itself and comes up with a stable goal system capable of acting
> over long time horizons.
>
> LLMs with reasoning have all the knowledge and intelligence they need but
> they lack a coherent drive and stable goals, they don't feel the burning
> desire to get things done the right way, they are easily swayed by prompt
> engineering and they get bogged down in trivia if left to act alone too
> long.
>
> Adding a self-referential "strange loop" of conscious desire to a frontier
> multi-modal AI model is going to be the capstone development on the road to
> AGI.
>
> Mark my words.
> --
> Rafal Smigrodzki, MD-PhD
> Schuyler Biotech PLLC
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